[cowiki-dev] Re: was [Issue 211] now dtg grumble about table syntax

The syntax is listed as Method 6 of seven given at 
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiMarkupStandard, is used by 
wikipedia, arguably the most used of wikis, and consists essentially of 
a pipe-hyphen at each row start, an optional between-pipe parameter for 
any cell, where any cell content is given on separate lines (as many as 
are needed) between initial pipe and eventual 
pipe-as-first-character-of-following-line. (The closing delimiter is the 
final newline of the content, followed by the pipe of the next cell or 
line.)

For example...

<table>
 |-                  new table row
 |cellparam|         new cell with HTML parameters

 cell text           cell content, on consecutive lines until pipe
 * list              is found at first character on line

 |-rowparam          params always follow the syntax immediately. leaving a space denotes content
 !headparam|         new header cell with HTML parameters (note pipe not bang after params)
 header text         content, on consecutive lines until pipe as for td.
 etc...
</table>
 

There are extensive instructions over at wikipedia, which I don't want 
to duplicate at this stage but can advise any curious person to read 
over. Even better, grok the Parser.

The heuristic might be : new row? whack in a hyphenated pipe "|-" params 
if any go sandwiched to the hyphen.
New cell? just a pipe, sandwich any params with another pipe and leave 
the content on following rows.
Repeat.

Play around. It's pretty simple.

dtg, HEAD appears (from http://cowiki.tigris.org) to have version 1.45, 
in which I replace the documentation skipped over in v1.44. In fact my 
cvs tree doesn't work at all, for reasons unknown, but my own working 
copy is thus far functional.

I'm going to have to bring my cvs tree to an executable state. Are there 
any installation instructions laying around? Things I should know to get 
a checkout to operate?

Regards,

Archie

[email protected] wrote:

>http://cowiki.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=211
>
>------- Additional comments from [email protected] Mon Mar 21 11:14:59 -0800 2005 -------
>Before I can look further .. The stuff you pasted:
>
><table>
>|-
>| Cell 1, row 1 
>|rowspan=2|
>* list
>* list2
>| Cell 3, row 1 
>|- 
>| content
>| Cell 3, row 2 
></table>
>
>isn't parsed to anything with latest HEAD.
>
>P.S. I think this is not a non-tech user friendly syntax (say it with me
>_wiki_). Even I didn't understand how it should work yet.
>  
>